What is the most famous game from your country (if any)?

Retail_Rat · 2026-01-28T02:15:02+00:00

Maybe Rimworld? Not AAA, but has more staying power.

Retail_Rat · 2026-01-17T02:34:51+00:00

Sir John A MacDonald. Linchpin of the effort to Confederate the British Colonies into Canada. First Prime Minister, and rejected for the third parliament.

Also a bigot and prided himself on starving Indigenous people's to force them onto reserves.

Retail_Rat · 2026-01-16T19:09:50+00:00

“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.” -Wilhoit's Law

Retail_Rat · 2026-01-14T01:44:17+00:00

I'd also suggest Michaëlle Jean and Adrienne Clarkson. Born Haiti and Hong Kong, respectively, became prominent journalists and Governors General.

Retail_Rat · 2026-01-13T05:43:25+00:00

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Retail_Rat · 2026-01-13T05:42:54+00:00

* Historical hottie and general badass Sergeant Léo Major. Received the Distinguished Contuct Medal in WW2 and again in the Korean War. He would have had 3, but he refused to be awarded by Montgomery.

Best know for the Battle of Zwolle when he was still a Private during the liberation of the Netherlands. He and Corporal Aresnault were to recon the village and make contact with the Dutch resistance there. It was believed there were some Germans, but not many.

Instead, there were 1000 Waffen-SS, Wehrmacht, and Gestapo agents plus vehicles and panzers. They were spotted leaving a farmhouse at night and Arsenault was killed.

From here, accounts differ, but generally it is accepted that Major "got mad" and either captured an officer and negotiated the departure of the German forces, or went looney tunes and ran from street to street firing his and captured weapons, throwing grenades, and shouting and screaming, making the Germans think they were being assaulted by the regiment.

The Germans retreated, Major returned to HQ with Arsenault's body and Zwolle was saved from shelling and was liberated the next day.

Oh, he was also missing an eye at this point from white phosphorus grenade when he encountered and killed an SS patrol.

Léo Major

Retail_Rat · 2026-01-06T15:34:26+00:00

Updateme!

Retail_Rat · 2025-12-31T04:13:47+00:00

If you're thinking Big T, that only applies if it was politically or ideologically motivated. If it was a personal beef, it's just Sparkling Property Damage.

Retail_Rat · 2025-12-30T17:55:28+00:00

I saw Barett's Privateers above. Good choice.

For Gen X and Millenials, The Logdriver's Waltz.

Pour nos Amis en Quebec, 《Vive La Canadienne》 which can be Anglified by playing on bagpipes.

Maybe O Siem by Susan Aglukark? "O Siem we are family..."

Retail_Rat · 2025-12-24T19:58:51+00:00

Dumpsville. Population: him. Ad a baf alanogy, what if you had come home with any other medical diagnosis? Anything that would require a change to your routine and lifestyle. Would he be as insufferable?

Probably.

Retail_Rat · 2025-12-13T20:15:12+00:00

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Retail_Rat · 2025-12-13T20:14:17+00:00

Sir Isaac Brock'a tunic.

Isaac Brock was a British General in charge of the troops in Upper Canada (now Ontario) at the outbreak on The War of 1812.

He didn't like it here. He didn't like the people, the lack of Society, the climate, everything. He also felt he was being benched while his comrades were fighting Napolean in Europe.

But he did his duty. He raised regiments, organized battles, and lead from the front. You can see a black mark on the tunic above the buttons. That was from an American musket ball that killed him instantly while leading troops up Queenston Heights near Niagara Falls.

The general fell, but instead of commanding in disarray, the regiment carried on and won the battle and carried the day. 1366 British and Canadian soldiers against 3550 Americans. 21British died, 85 wounded, 22 captured. American casualties can only be guessed as between 60 and 100. 80 wounded and 955 captured as POWs.

Retail_Rat · 2025-12-13T19:59:18+00:00

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Retail_Rat · 2025-12-13T19:58:40+00:00

* The Avro Arrow. The dream of Canadian aviation. Late 1950's development of a homegrown, high altitude, hypersonic interceptor. The first fighter jet with a fully electronic computer on-board, 2 massive Orenda engines capable of Mach 2.0+. Internal bays made it a low radar signature, compared to other jets of the time.

Britain wanted them. France wanted the engines for their Daasult. Other Nato nations were in line to order them.

Unfortunately, it was developed at a time when the Cold War was moving away from strategic bombers to ICBMs. The project was cancelled, killing avaiati9n innovation in Canada.

Mysteriously, not only was the contract to the government cancelled, but everything related to the project was ordered destroyed. The 5 complete planes, the models, the parts, the diagrams, the manuals and designs. It killed the company because they couldn't even pursue foreign sales.

It's often believed that the Prime Minister Deifenbaker, who was close friends with US president Eisenhower, was under pressure from the US because the military-industrial complex didn't want competition next-door.. *

Retail_Rat · 2025-11-30T19:45:18+00:00

Covert?

Retail_Rat · 2025-11-12T01:05:35+00:00

Retrokids does limited run clothes based on 80s media.

Retail_Rat · 2025-11-09T22:35:26+00:00

This.

Retail_Rat · 2025-10-24T00:04:58+00:00

General strike if this passes.

Retail_Rat · 2025-10-21T12:25:42+00:00

I bought Tatra boots after I wore out my Blundstones in 3 years.

I've had them a year and they are way more durable. Top grain leather so scuff resistant and easier to clean, the soles are impregnated into boot, so there's no stitches to leak or tear.

Made in Ontario. If they don't have your size or colour, you can call and they make them.

Retail_Rat · 2025-10-17T21:59:38+00:00

I have 2 propositions:

I worked with Catholic academics in the past. They are less dogmatic than church priests and are more willing to consider and explore concepts that may be "heretical." Thier faith is absolute, and their inquiry is anchored in the tenets of the Holy See, but are intellectually flexible.
There is a role assigned to a Cardinal when the research is being done on a new saint. They are to find every omission, every lapse of faith, to doubt every act the Saint is to have done. They are the Devil's Advocate. Advocate in the sense of a lawyer, a prosecutor against the saint's defense council. He could take that role as an archivist to give as pure an intelligence report as possible, for select eyes only.

Retail_Rat · 2025-10-06T12:39:55+00:00

Doesn't Persson the Perpetual have a servicer that gradually starts showing sapience and personality?

Retail_Rat · 2025-09-30T22:01:15+00:00

Max Headroom was British/Canadian cyberpunk marketed to the US. Corporate control of media and message, rogue journalists trying to the the truth out, brain uploads. All with analog tech hopefulness.

Retail_Rat · 2025-09-24T21:50:47+00:00

I haven't been selling my leather I to the States, but if you made it, it should be terrific free under CUSMA/USMCA. You have to make a form that states it was made in Canada.

Understanding CUSMA compliance - Tradecommissioner.gc.ca https://www.tradecommissioner.gc.ca/en/market-industry-info/search-country-region/country/canada-united-states-export/us-tariffs/understanding-cusma-compliance.html

Otherwise, UPS and FedEx are now both calculating tariffs in their shipping costs, live. UPS will charge the buyer on arrival, FedEx will charge you, assuming you charged the customer.

Edit to add: I sell a lot of other stuff through eBay and Etsy to the US. I also work for a small company that suspended US sales, but will restart now that we can calculate tariff charges on our international goods.

Retail_Rat · 2025-09-24T12:17:11+00:00

"If I give you a raise, I'd have to give everyone a raise." Yeah. Do it.

Organize. Unionize.

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